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Saturday, December 19, 2009

I personally hate snow and ice and cold. I'd be fine and dandy if I moved south of the Mason Dixon and never saw another snowflake again. But my kids love it. The minute they see a fresh snowfall, they bundle up and head outside. I've appointed myself the official hot chocolate maker which is an indoor job.

Here's the fort Austin made today...

And the snowman Savannah made. If you look closely, you'll see the celery nose. What? We were out of carrots. My kids are nothing if not creative.

All kids love snow, I used to play in it for hours as a kids, my 14 year old daughter wants it to snow for Christmas, but with it being Washington I doubt we will get snow until after the New Year (LOL)....

Sadly, I don't think moving south of the Mason-Dixon Line will keep you safe from the snow. I live in Arlington, VA, and we just got dumped on--20" in 24 hours! Luckily, we don't get storms like this very often, but lots of schools around here will close at the very threat of snow. Be grateful you live in Chicago...a city that (miraculously!) continues to function when the white fluffy stuff starts falling from the sky.

Very cool celery nose. I love it :) ours always have pee wee noses because I only have the baby carrots.

And the fort? That I'm truly impressed with given how little snow fell here to use as a base -- and I can see from the picture that you didn't get much, if any, more and he really trolled everywhere in the area to get snow for it. Nicely done!

I am like you and would love to live where it is warm. I also don't care for the snow.But when I got up Sat. morning I was just in awe at the beautiful site of everything, including the trees and shrubs covered with lots of snow. It was breath taking but now I am sick of it. LOL

This is more proof that God has to be a man. Who else would create ideal conditions for kids to make a complete shambles of freshly cleaned houses 5 days before Christmas?

If it was a woman she'd make winter well away from most major family orientated holidays so you could just let the munchkins run ferral, and not have the threat of having your Mother in law turn up unannounced.So glad winter in Brisbane is a snow free season. Good luck Dawn!!*Big Hugs*Belinda in Brisbane Australia (where it's usually around 95 degrees this time of year)

Celery for a snowman's nose? Why not! :) I see they are just as creative as their mamma is. My parents and grandparents were really creative, too when it came to snow when i was a mini munchkin. You see, I have muscular dystrophy so I've always been a skinny, tiny thing without much meat on my bones to help keep me warm. Although they sometimes would bundle me up so I could go out in the cold, they also would sometimes bring inside the house a basin full of fresh snow so I could build mini snowmen and make snowballs. Those were the days. :)